Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five seasons in such plays as Wednesday's Child and Remember the Day. An even younger member of Seen But Not Heard's cast is a puckish 10-year-old named Raymond Roe. In his impersonation of a peewee hypochondriac who gains his end by holding his breath for protracted periods, he rises far above his material, shows a natural aptitude for high comedy...
...gulps to German throats. Then, with every radio station in the Fatherland broadcasting his words, with every German who had a radio set instructed to be listening in, and with loudspeakers blaring in the streets and squares of every German city, town and village, Adolf Hitler spoke with his breath-taking simplicity: "If I had the Ural Mountains, if we possessed Siberia, if we had the Ukraine, then Nazi Germany would be swimming in Prosperity! I am not in the fortunate position of the Soviet Jews. Nevertheless, the problems of Germany must be solved! There is no such thing...
...motionless behind a bush when the cubs came up and the groundskeeper duly 'squealed,' a sound made by suction of the breath through pursed lips. The vocal cord was not used. Two or three more squeals and we had them right up, just the other side of the bush, looking at us. Then one of them sat down to it, the others followed suit and there we were, the six of us, staring at each other like so many owls. When we had enough, the groundskeeper called: "and what's the game now!" Whereat they all whisked...
Wires flashed the news around the world. For 15 minutes commission men in New York, cotton mill operators in New England and the South, spinners in Manchester, in Bombay and Osaka, caught their breath, figured furiously, sent cables. After 20 minutes when trading was resumed in Manhattan, brokers' hands were full of large and small orders from all over the world. Before noon anyone could have bought U. S. cotton for future delivery at about 11 ½ ? Ib. An hour later none could be had under 12?, a difference of $2.50 a bale...
...justification of his choice of Landon over Roosevelt, the aging boss of the Emporia Gazette explains this philosophy: "Economic thinking moves like molasses in January. Sometimes revolutionary action is swift and fluid and brings economic change with breath-taking rapidity...